A96093:2173
The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Charity is kind, ver. 4. [Greek or Hebrew], Love is a munificent bountiful grace, it is full of good works, it drops as the honey-comb.
1. Charity is kind, ver. 4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Love is a munificent bountiful grace, it is full of good works, it drops as the honey-comb.
2. Charity is not puffed up, [Greek or Hebrew], though it be bountiful, it is not proud; love is a humble grace; like the violet, though it perfumes the Air, yet hangs down its head; love lays aside the Trumpet, and covers it self with a veil; love conceals its own worths and saith as Paul, 2 Cor. 12.11. [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ though I be nothing.
2. Charity is not puffed up, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, though it be bountiful, it is not proud; love is a humble grace; like the violet, though it perfumes the Aire, yet hangs down its head; love laies aside the Trumpet, and covers it self with a vail; love conceals its own worths and saith as Paul, 2 Cor. 12.11. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ▪ though I be nothing.
3. Charity seeketh not her own, ver. 5. The Apostle complains,